Happy 16th Birthday Connor boy!

16 years old!  

Here's to a kid who brings COOL to our family, laughter to our hoMe and reminds us all how to keep the kid in us alive and well!  

Love him SOOOO MUCH!  

My kids are growing up way too fast, STOP ALREADY!!  

Turning 16 was a VERY BIG DEAL for Connor.  He is one of the youngest in his grade, so everyone else was driving and dating.  

This birthday couldn't come soon enough!  

We decided to plan a huge surprise party for this kid.

The Saturday before his birthday we invited 30 of his closest friends to come and have a big ice cream bar and PARTY!  

I put butcher paper on the tables with a bucket of markers, and his friends all wrote nice things...and even drew pictures! :)

You can't see everyone, but we had a huge turnout!

He got his license ON HIS BIRTHDAY!  This was a present for me too!!  Oh so nice to have another driver in the family!  He is such an awesome driver too!!

Opening presents...

A PILL!  This is a really, really nice speaker that he can hook up his phone to and bring the tunes anywhere he goes!  

Taylor bought Connor this huge, cuddly bear!!

As part of his birthday celebrations, Connor wanted to hike Timpanogos mountain again this year.  Karl went with them last year, so I went this year.   We started at 1:15am!  Yup, it was an awesome night hike, and we were able to see the sunrise in the morning from the top of Timp.

Can I just say, AMAZING group of teenagers!  They were so fun to hang out with, and were so nice about having me as their "chaperone".

The views were spectacular!!

Hard to believe we were at the top of that mountain!!

Such a great hike, hard but fun!  

(about a 9 hour hike!)